detainee desperation r.t. following a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison entering its forty first day with some inmates saying it's a do or die protest but officials insisting reports are exaggerated. belo panic in cyprus is that eased controversial offer of assistance has huge implications with people losing large chunks of their life saving. a legacy of war haunting iraq nearly ten years since the u.s. invasion in two car bombs kill at least ten people in the latest part of violence amid ongoing criticism of washington's decade old decision. you were very lucky to meet. you. remember it was something else to be lindsey again that's what the president of belarus alexander lukashenko answers those who love to hate him in an exclusive interview with r.t. saying his ambition for his country is to live as

a normal european state. one pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is continuing to downplay a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days now in an act of defiance sparked by the confiscation they say of their personal items and desecration of qur'an prison officials though insisting the reports are outright falsehoods say there's only a handful of prisoners who are refusing food here's how the cab spokesman captain robert duran described the situation in guantanamo in a response to our teacher quest for information he said the mission provides safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of detainees adding that joint task force kuantan m o c to ensure cease to ensure it stays true to the highest

standards by colleague bill doug spoke with a former guantanamo guard brandon neely earlier and i asked him how he thought the detainee detainees were treated during his time at the facility. there are you know we were told before we actually got to want on a move that the geneva convention would not be held. on these days when we first arrived there when he will now go walk around in their cells or cages as i call among the dead they were allowed to pray they were allowed to do nothing when the international red cross came also some constraints you know loosened up and they were able to talk and stuff but you know it but they were treated horrible you know they were they were abused by you know by us guards when it came to the inter reaction force team into it was just mistreated all around the source at the beginning do you think the detainees are treated any differently today as just to remind you of that over ten years ago has anything changed. i think from the outside look at it in a strange as far as the p.r. the way the government tries to spin it because the facility is a lot better but still guards have been there over the last few years three men saw

it as far as the internal reaction force team and the way the koran is treated in a stuff like that how much has changed maybe the outside is changed but inside hasn't changed too much one hundred sixty sixty timmy's being held at the moment there are eighty six of them have been cleared for release since two thousand and nine but unable to be sent home because of a transfer instructions guantanamo bay camps been operating for more than eleven years now despite president obama's pledge to close it artie's your piskun obtuse a look back at his attempts to shut down the facility. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since the brahmas to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the facility to be closed within a year and banned certain into rigden methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees but in me the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure until the president provided more detail as to

what he would do with the prisoners in mid october to appear the situation changed as congress allowed some detainees to be moved to the united states for prosecution but at the end of two thousand and ten congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented u.s. based trials for guantanamo detainees and in january two thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the reason which ruled out shutting one town in will be down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president failed to veto the national defense bill believing the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july last year the pentagon announced its

plans to aliyev forty million dollar fiberoptic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign of washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center lack of information in secrecy surrounding want on a mower making the situation worse according to a london based human rights activist i.e. money are her group tries to uncover what really goes on at the capitol she says the mainstream media and u.s. officials have always done their best to try and contain any scandals. there's a lot of things that get officially denied a half an hour guantanamo bay for example last year when. one of the prisoners died in a strange circumstance and took time for the truth to actually come out had actually died we still don't know exactly what circumstances like in which he did die i mean it was made impossible for there to be an independent autopsy because some of his organs when they returned to his family months later. had to generated so much that it would be impossible to know what the actual cause of death was so there's

a lot of secrecy surrounding what happens at guantanamo bay if there are requests for information they get covered up by national security issues and also there's just a lack of general interest in actually wanted to happen at guantanamo bay what i'm curious things that has come out over the last couple of weeks is that one of the deterioration of the prisoners complained about. is that in january the bullets were fired out of prisoners during a protest that they had held this was corroborated by the pentagon and again it's just it's incredibly curious this has been admitted a couple of months down the line but there has hardly been any outcry in some of the more time to suppress it there's been some coverage in the mainstream media it's managed to get a couple of pieces but it's not actually being considered as a news worthy item. we're closely following the situation in good mo on our web site as well head to our team dot com for more opinion and analysis there you can buy more like this the lawyers of the hunger strikers expressing grave concerns over what they say is the worsening health of their clients the detainees claim

most inmates are now involved in the protests plus. more comment and analysis from activists psychologists and one former detainee who claimed he saw a boy as young as nine he thought being beaten by guards at one time a facility. fired tear gas in clash with crowds protesting against an assault on journalists in cairo a camera man from our sister network our arabic channel was among those attacked by the brotherhood members while filming graffiti artist painting near the muslim

brotherhood headquarters are true is following following the spiraling unrest. we've had reports that tens have been arrested including one journalists as fierce clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces outside the muslim brotherhood headquarters here in the capital the police have reportedly been firing birdshot but it's tear gas hundreds who gathered to protest against an attack they said happened against journalists by muslim brotherhood members groups with the rising at the area outside the main headquarters of the mission but it's arriving with sticks and knives on the journalist attempted to film anti-government protesters spraying anti brotherhood slogans on this main headquarters new directives journalists in the had one who said this was another example of a crackdown on freedom of speech by the most brotherhood's he called on the supreme guide which is the leading spiritual figure of the regime but i had to apologize to the brotherhood for their part say that this skirmishes that occurred after groups

attempted to break into the building it's still not clear how this story's going to end we're seeing significant unrest and lots of anti brotherhood sentiment across the country this protest happening almost on a daily basis and a lot of skirmishes even here in the capital by to her square on the banks of the nile we're seeing a daily fights between a youth undercover protesters and security forces the president is fighting many different problems at the same time in addition the parliamentary elections have been suspended after the admission of courts said there was a problem with the electoral law putting the future of the political costing in doubt this economic problem is a major economic problem is the president is trying to secure an unpopular four point eight billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. which could see subsidies cuts and tax hikes that people have been protesting against of course you've got a situation of poor saeed's and here the capital over this very contentious verdict in the port side football trial which saw several people die in the last few weeks

so what we're seeing really is continual protests continue on to governments sentiments and with not any solutions on the horizon. well stay with us here on r t still to come a rescue plan that's causing panic cypriots opting for cash instead of bank accounts as the government plans a controversial levy acquired ten billion euro bailout package also. a war of aggression in iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mr the major league including the region ten years after the start of the iraq war which was far more costly than u.s. ever and that it ever imagined still much public questioning of whether it was all worth it we were poor shortly stay with us.

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live. live live. live . russia has condemned the latest conditions proposed to the cyprus by the e.u. countries president president vladimir putin branded unfair unprofessional and

dangerous if taken after this afternoon's vote the so-called rescue plan for the tiny euro zone country would see a one time levy on all bank accounts to avoid a national default. as more well today is a crucial day for cyprus as its parliament votes and ratifying that new one time bank deposit tax that has really come as a surprise when it was announced over the weekend that people in cyprus already having reacted with a bit of a panic no this came about as the e.u. finance ministers as the and the international monetary fund had agreed upon a ten billion euro bailout for the country on the condition that this bank tax a bank deposit tax be imposed now this could amount to up to nine point nine percent of of those who have a more than one hundred thousand euros in the bank and for many people there it's said their entire life savings that they have that are they feel are now in trouble and the panic that has been stirred over the weekend people trying to get money out

of the cash machines but electronic transfers have been stopped and. people there calling this is. simply a robbery there their savings being taken away from them the president of the country however have been. acceptance of the bailout as crucial for the country says that if. this requirement is. the country will might be forced to get out of the euro of the euro zone area and therefore some people feel that the country has really been put in a position where it has no choice but to accept everything that is down by brussels by e.u. leaders by the meetings that they have here people are concerned again they really see this as. what is supposed to be there and this is unprecedented in the sense that this is the first time that a requirement for a bailout is actually actually means dipping into the personal savings of citizens that this is the first time it has happened officials here say that this is not

going to be a precedent that is not going to be a trend to whatever already there is. citizens whether or not this red line that they thought would never be cross has actually already been crossed and if we look again at what may be the biggest factor in disrupting the very fabric of the european union is this kind of social dissatisfaction kind of a protest from the people where there are where they are not happy with the kind of decisions that their leaders are making as a directly impacts the very quality of their lives. the start of the iraq war two car bomb attacks killing at least ten people who overall the war has claimed thousands of lives and cost many billions of dollars a decade on the arguments continue over one of the most controversial u.s. policy decisions are. reports. i know. there's no greater cost to more than shatter human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis

according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states when you're here less than one percent of people participated in the war so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it says though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction the most recent study puts the total cost of the war at two trillion dollars that the u.s.

the authors of the reports say the country will continue to pay and over the next four decades that cost could reach six trillion dollars but on top of the human loss and dollars spent there's also been a political price to pay for american credibility and influence went down well runs went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later so law of unintended consequences are you know polar moment ended when we went into baghdad but we didn't know it from the berlin wall to that time we destroyed the earth like a grand colossus and then after that it's all been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says you would like his change the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and then what do we do we mount a war of aggression on iraq kill

a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right in the world looks at that and they say oh this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely inept leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedge among today many of those who cheered for the iraq war on t.v. shows and then their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states really united states of amnesia as gore but also aptly said the tendency to forget and to move on could prove dangerous with new war talk brewing in washington with many of the same people who pushed for the iraq like lawrence are now pushing to drag america into another conflict in the middle

east a number of thing fighters from the bush administration have come out and said the desire to topple directly government trumped all other considerations at the time of the invasion there was no credible intelligence that saddam had weapons of mass destruction or ties with al qaida and yet the administration wanted to invade at all costs but we see from these policymakers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm going to check out. policy advisor fergus hobson thinks there's too many warring factions now in iraq for it to see peace anytime soon the problem is that prior to the invasion it really was a difficult situation already the no fly zones in force by the british u.s. and french military and the very difficult sanctions meant that iraq prior to the invasion was already in a very poor state and so it's hard to say. it remains in a very difficult situation one interesting point to note though is that a recent gallup survey in iraq said that the people gave the message that basically

i thought the place was small secure and now when the u.s. forces were present and great a number of people should know that there are still many u.s. contractors there so it's not as though there is zero presence the united states and many people still see that as a presence which they want to fight against also iraq already was a very divided nation you have kurds you have synergy of many different minorities who are necessarily happy with each other or with the prevailing leadership. looking for a place in the sun and hoping to live as a normal civilized european state is how the president of belarus alexander lukashenko out why in the future and goals of his country in an exclusive interview he is the man many media outlets love to hate and more likely to most likely to dublin europe's last and dictator about libya shame go takes it on the chin because he says he knows it's not true in fact in the interview he points out when he steps down he doesn't want to be replaced by someone ruling to the extreme but someone continuing his course the president of the former soviet republic has been

repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights in oppressing the opposition. says democracy in his country is just as good as that found in europe or the us take a listen. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need to understand that do i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point five billion people no in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social

military population and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves so major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you are very lucky to meet your . last dictator in person we remember it was that something you probably won't see again. for the exclusive interview with president alexander lukashenko at thirteen thirty g.m.t. or anytime on our website or t. dot com. but in several better when villages say they're not going to back down in the face of israeli bulldozers their villages already been razed to the ground forty seven times an official saying the bedouins have no proof of ownership of community says they've been there for more than

a century and have no plans to surrender it or his policy reports there's not much but what there is with him now was destroyed. part of an israeli plan to win the negev desert of its bid when mr dense. had if they even demolished the thousand times i will rebuild it as long as i'm alive i will keep struggling i will not give up my living in fear all the time whenever somebody calls us and says there is in the main street we take all. the tent and take it to the cemetery and now they are threatening to demolish the cemetery. i will keep village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first demolition more than three years ago and since then most families have relocated to neighboring towns but well meant that we're not the freight we're

waiting for them to come again. a steadfast few who live near the threat and symmetry wait to rebuild their homes after the bulldozers leave there is a lighter side to the story residents here have asked the guinness book of world records to enter them as the village that has been demolished the most times in history forty seven and counting. nearly half of the big one population of the negative around ninety thousand people live in forty five villages and recognized by the israeli government they don't appear on any map and have no official signs marking their existence when they're not being torn down they're being torn apart through the government's refusal to provide sewage systems roads electricity water schools or hospitals but television says it's ready to change that if the bedouins move to recognize villages it promises to provide them with basic services and compensation. they are living on lions that belong to the state israel is

a country of law and institutions and when you claim land belongs to you should be able to prove it through legal papers the better ones don't have these papers so it's very hard to accept their claimants. but shake saya all to a disagrees he says his ancestors are buried in the cemetery where graves stayed back at least one hundred years. we have papers from the in one thousand and five we paid taxes for this land from the year one thousand twenty one until nine hundred forty seven we have papers from the british in one hundred twenty nine and we even have papers from the year of nine hundred seventy three signed by israel itself all these papers prove that the land belongs to us. these ready government is expected soon to possible that we'll see more than twenty i'm recognized big when villages destroyed and some fifty thousand bedouins displaced about two thirds of the land is threatened with confiscation the government trying to organize their vigilance against their will the bed was pretty fair to live in are going to go to

the villages to brazil. of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note. i will keep village in the negev desert up next peter of ellen is gas in danger in some heated debate across town stay with us here on r.g.p. . there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v.

channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funded segregation also or via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy. arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt to bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars

a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs are still human trees in arabic in school here on. reporting for the world talks to feel at peace interviews intriguing story. arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. me seriously.